All posts by Zaf Qasim

Dr Zaf Qasim is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care based at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. He has particular interests in trauma, prehospital care and advanced resuscitation and is widely regarded as an expert in practical resuscitation procedures. You can find him on Twitter as @emeddoc

One thing is clear from the military and civilian literature – hemorrhage kills1,2. Overall, 40-50,000 deaths per year in the US are preventable with appropriate hemorrhage control and resuscitation. The demographic of these victims is …